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01. TEENAGE FILMSTARS - (There's A) CLoud Over Liverpool
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02. TEENAGE FILMSTARS - Sometimes Good Guys Don't Follow Trends
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03. TEENAGE FILMSTARS - The Odd Man Out
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04. TEENAGE FILMSTARS - I Apologise
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05. TEENAGE FILMSTARS - I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape
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06. TEENAGE FILMSTARS - We're Not Sorry
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07. TEENAGE FILMSTARS - Storybook Beginings
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08. TEENAGE FILMSTARS - Dressing Up For The Cameras
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09. TEENAGE FILMSTARS - The Sun Never Sets
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10. TEENAGE FILMSTARS - He's A Professional
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11. TEENAGE FILMSTARS - The John Peel March
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12. TEENAGE FILMSTARS - (There's A) Cloud Over Liverpool (Composite Mix)
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ARTIST
TEENAGE FILMSTARS
TITLE
(There's A) Cloud Over Liverpool
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
MUNSTER RECORDS
CATALOG #
MR 343LP
MR 343LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
7/8/2014
Repressed, originally released for Record Store Day 2014. Munster Records presents, in a co-release with Discos Alehop!, the three official singles of the British band
Teenage Film Stars
reissued on vinyl for the first time: "(There's A) Cloud Over Liverpool" (Clockwork Records), "The Odd Man Out" (Wessex Records/Blueprint Records) and "I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape" (Fab Listening Records). After self-releasing two records with his band
'O' Level
, in 1979
Ed Ball
continued the path of '60s-influenced new wave pop already present in that band's
The Malcolm
EP (1978), now under the name Teenage Filmstars. In this new adventure he was accompanied by his school friends
Dan Treacy
and
Joe Foster
(both members of
Television Personalities
). With their help, Ball released a first single in September 1979 featuring two songs: the A-side was taken by "(There's A) Cloud Over Liverpool" (a tremendous chorus-song) and the B-side contained "Sometimes Good Guys Don't Follow Trends" (a comment on youth culture). The song "(There's A) Cloud Over Liverpool" received support by
John Peel
and reached certain fame in the UK and the United States, where it was interpreted as an homage to
John Lennon
. June 1980 saw the release of their second single, titled "The Odd Man Out," where Teenage Filmstars offered as the lead track a catchy ska-pop number in the vein of
Madness
. The other side featured "I Apologise," a beautiful pop melody punctuated by the kind of guitars characteristic of the revival mod bands of the time. Their last single, from November 1980, included the track from their repertoire with the biggest potential, "I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape" (re-recorded in 1982 for Ball's next project,
The Times
, again along with Dan Treacy), an homage to the actor
Patrick Joseph McGoohan
, who worked on the late 1960s cult TV series "The Prisoner." The single's other side featured "We're Not Sorry," a power pop nugget which links them with bands such as
The Jam
and
Merton Parkas
(who were mocked on one of the two sleeves of "(There's A) Cloud Over Liverpool"). This compilation also includes two tracks never released on vinyl until now which were recorded in April 1979, in the style of 'O' Level: "He's a Professional" (anti-military punk-pop) and the folk-punk anthem "The John Peel March," dedicated to the legendary BBC radio host and great supporter of new bands. This retrospective is completed with a recording session dated to November 1980 which produced three tracks ("Storybook Beginnings," "Dressing Up for the Cameras" and "The Sun Never Sets") which further explore the power pop-mod sound that Ed Ball would develop in his next band The Times. Ed Ball's music career would continue into the 1980s and 1990s in bands such as Television Personalities (until 1985), The Times (until 1999) and many more projects, including four albums as a solo artist.
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